Do you like skating and want your personalised skateboard deck? Look no further than Project RPSD. Oh, and did we...
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Projects
Resolve Trash2Cash is a women-led micro enterprise that transforms attitudes to waste and recycling. Waste has one of the...
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A simple sticker can keep fruit fresh for up to two weeks longer, using natural plant compounds and creating a...
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Businesses too can be the change. In 2010, three engineers met and started what can only be described as...
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Primary school pupils and beach strolling enthusiasts have turned into leading allies for scientists fighting problems in marine ecosystems. ...
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How can we buy clothes that look great, fit well – and don’t harm the planet? Ecoalf has found one answer:...
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The combination of laser and ozone technologies allows Jeanologia to finish a pair of jeans using just a glass of...
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An orchestra made up of young people at risk of social exclusion turns rubbish from the largest landfill in Paraguay...
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Young people are unleashing their creative brilliance by creating high end couture from everyday junk. At a time when...
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Take a cup of old coffee grounds, a handful of mussel shells, and a dash of green tea, and what...
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Africa’s first space for democratic technology has now produced over twenty 3D printers made from e-waste. Over one billion...
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Precious Plastic is on a mission to boost recycling by helping everyone start their own local plastic workshop. A...
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A social enterprise in India is bringing much needed play into children’s lives with low-cost playscapes made from scrap tyres...
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A new circular model of housing entirely created with reusable and recyclable materials has taken form in Italy thanks to...
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A Kenyan entrepreneur has taken discarded plastic and turned it into bricks that can hold twice the weight of concrete...
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The 'Clothing Man' has transformed the culture of giving – and receiving – in India with his treatment of clothing and...
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Ever travelled by poo power, perhaps even your own? These buses are powered by the fuel of the future. ...
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Reopened in November 2020 after a major renovation, Sydney’s Australian Museum brings a focus on climate solutions and First Nations...
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Welcome to the future of recycling. A waste-sorting AI robot that can tell a Coke bottle from a Pepsi one? It...
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In an organic farm in an ancient city in Galilee, a materials scientist is reversing environmental damage using the green...
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In the Greek islands, a community of 'water allies' is working to solve the problems of water supply, wastewater and...
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This is how you grow vegetables in the Sahara – by piping seawater from the Red Sea across the sands to produce...
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A forest is emerging from the Egyptian sands to fight desertification – thanks to wastewater. No, this is not a...
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A franchise network of 'digital' toilets in Nairobi is helping to stem the spread of COVID-19 among vulnerable urban slum communities....
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Home to endangered marine turtles that come to its shores to lay their eggs, Ghana has a rich fauna and...
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Boomera works with Brazil’s waste pickers and big brands to find new creative uses for plastic that normally ends up...
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Fashion can be a blueprint for other industries – one that’s regenerative rather than extractive, supporting life on Earth. ...
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In São Paulo, people are using the Cataki app to swipe right on cleaner streets, protecting the environment, and improving...
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Do you segregate your wet and dry waste? Most people think it’s extra work, but if you can convert it...
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One third all all food is wasted; which is staggering. But there is a fun way to reduce this. The...
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Founded in 2015, French biotechnology start-up PILI Bio seeks to disrupt the unsustainable production of dyes in the textile industry...
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Did you know that we can enable African students to learn vital IT skills in addition to offsetting tonnes of...
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A picture paints a thousand words – but when it comes to fashion, there’s a lot more to say. Texture is...
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Recycling clothes is a complicated business. Making fabrics new again isn’t the only challenge – the threads, zippers and buttons...
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No, not edible clothes – but even better. MycoTEX are creating custom-made clothing from mushrooms, that produce zero waste and...
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Every second, a garbage truck full of textiles goes to landfill – despite fabric having a significant water, carbon and chemical...
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Ready, set… STOP. This team of planners and pickers are putting an end to plastic pollution in South East Asia....
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The consumption of non-renewable resources for single use items and the amount of waste generated is profoundly unsustainable. That’s why London-based tech startup NotPla wants...
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Swedish Stockings is the first and only sustainable stocking company that is closing the loop by converting its recycled nylon...
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While mobile phones bring huge benefits – such as accessibility to information, ability to set up mobile payments and help...
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Despite being born over a thousand years before the invention of the computer, Saint Isidore of Seville is considered the ‘Patron Saint...
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Imagine if you could donate clean air to the city simply by buying a ring or set of cufflinks? But...
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“There is no question that plastic pollution is one of the most pressing problems of our time – and it’s...
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As in every design endeavour, it all started with a problem. In fact, two of them. The first encountered problem...
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The Littery is Latvia’s answer to reducing the man-made problem of litter waste with the most global of incentives: money....
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Repair has always been a noble profession, but our increasing obsession with newer, better, faster means we have stopped fixing...
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Scrolling through Instagram, a Too Good To Go ad pops up in which a girl and a boy sprint through...
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Do you rule out peppers because they're too twisted? Unconsciously, most of us discard some fruits and vegetables in the...
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While surfers, fishermen and sea-lovers might be aware of the devastating impact of discarded plastic, not everyone knows that marine...
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When it comes to our fruit and vegetables, we’re used to supermarket perfection, but a misshapen carrot or heart-shaped potato...
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Do you know who made your clothes; who grew the cotton, spun the threads, dyed the fabric and sewed them...
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This is the sort of rapid response the world needs right now. On the Monday of 3 February 2020, something...
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Could 3D-printing help to tackle homelessness and provide affordable housing for those who need it most? Rural families in...
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Dino Impagliazzo dices onions like a master chef and makes a mean vegetable soup – but most of his loyal...
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Plastic bottle pavilions and urban-mined glasses, 'Polli-Brick' and 'Eco-Morph' and the waste that it slashes, upcycled film theatres and recycled...
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You can find rubber just about everywhere you look in modern society: tyres and protective clothing, household utensils and medical...
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One of the planet’s smallest and fastest-growing organisms is helping inventor-engineer Julian Melchiorri to think macro by playing with the micro;...
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Toast Ale is the UK’s first beer produced with bread. The award-winning craft beer uses surplus fresh bread from bakeries and sandwich...
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Decades of over-exploitation have left our ocean and fish populations a shadow of their former selves. That’s why, after securing...
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A simple but effective solution to tackling ocean waste, the Seabin Project was created by two surfers, Pete Ceglinski and Andrew...
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One person’s toxic e-waste dump is another’s treasure workshop. That's why a Ghana-based architect duo have launched AMP (Agbogbloshie Makerspace...
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The aquaponics game is fun, and now Aquapioneers wants to show Barcelona that it's also easy to harvest fish and grow food without...
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Modern life feels like it can race out of control and it's hard to create positive change alone – but...
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Meet Cameroon's protector of the oceans using plastic waste to build eco-canoes. The charismatic Ismaël Essome Ebone is the young entrepreneur...
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Inspired by the thousands of tents typically left behind after music festivals, two twenty-something Dutch entrepreneurs have decided to give...
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Around 8 million tonnes of plastic enter the ocean every year – killing over a million seabirds, hundreds of thousands...
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Growing up in Brazil, Luciana Oliveira was often exposed to the reality of the hardworking waste picker at an early...
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A lifelong boater and self-professed ‘beach bum’ wants to stop virgin plastic from entering the ocean ever again. And help...
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Few things are as wasteful as a mobile phone. Designed to be discarded, even the latest model can seem outdated...
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The world is on an unsustainable path, but powerful ideas and innovations that could help solve social, economic and environmental...
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Chicago’s Stickney Water Reclamation Plant is the biggest wastewater treatment plant on Earth. In fact, at a whopping 260 square miles...
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Now you really can be a tree... when you’re six feet under. It might not seem so, but two Italian...
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When a busy commercial block collapsed due to structural failure in the 2013 Rana Plaza building collapse in Dhaka, Bangladesh,...
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Revolutionary technology rarely looks the part. The steel chimneys and chemical storage silos of Kalundborg on the Danish island of Zealand could be...
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